Norwegian company Telia stopped airing China Global Television Network (CGTN) after receiving a complaint from victims who had experienced forced TV confessions in China, according to an April 13 tweet by Peter Dahlin, director of human rights group Safeguard Defenders. The group urged global TV providers, including Eutelsat, not to air CGTN and take part in the grave human rights violations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). TV confessions are a tool that the CCP has applied to targeted groups including rights lawyers, activists, dissidents, believers, and ethnic minorities. CGTN is a Mouthpiece of the CCP CGTN, previously known as CCTV International until 2016, is the international division of China’s state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV), and is under the control of the Publicity Department of the CCP. According to its official site, it has three production centers and is available in more than 160 countries and regions. A September 2019 article …